We hope everyone is having a pleasant and productive summer, and that you are getting ready for the beginning of the new Academic year.

In this issue you will find all of our forthcoming courses, workshops activities and related events.

In the “Special for Teachers” section you will find the list of the Fall workshops strongly recommend to all of our teachers.

This year IACE will offer 14 scholarships to our members (teachers of Italian) to attend these workshops for professional development.

We would also greatly appreciate your cooperation in creating a forum for discussion on pedagogy and teaching strategies by sending us short articles or brief notes dealing with direct classroom experience, teaching tips, and successful application of linguistic theories.

Enjoy the rest of your vacation!! Arrivederci a presto!

New IACE Pilot Projects

We are glad to announce that IACE will offer two new Italian Pilot Projects:

• “Little Singers”

• "Italian Theater Practicum”

“Little Singers” is a 24 weeks program designed for children ages 5 to 7 with little or no musical background. Students will learn about Italian children’s favorite songs and traditional melodies while being exposed to the Italian language. This is a playful and fun approach for the little ones who will perform as an Italian Children's choir at the end of the course.

It will be held at Centro Raccontami in Manhattan starting September 28th through June.

For further information please contact the program's coordinator Katia Tennyson at katiatennyson@aol.com.

"Italian Theater Practicum” is a 12 week content based workshop targeted to Intermediate and Advanced students. The program has been created and successfully directed by Vittorio Capotorto for American Universities. Its purpose is to teach the Italian Language in all its forms through the study of classical and contemporary Italian playwrights culminating in the representation of a play.

It will be held in Manhattan at Centro Raccontami and at Columbus Club starting September 19th.

For further information contact the program's coordinators Katia Tennyson katiatennyson@aol.com or Josephine Belli at jbelli5@aol.com.

ICON E-learning and E-tutoring

ICoN, Italian Culture on the Net, a Consortium of over 50 Italian Universities, in cooperation with IACE promoted a new project on e-learning and e-tutoring Italian.

A group of IACE teachers of the Tri-State area has been selected to participate to a course held in a virtual classroom, with the assistance of specialized tutors.The program has been coordinated by Doct Nadia Gatto, the program director in Italy in collaboration with Doct Carmela Pesca, Associate Professor of Italian at Central Connecticut State University and coordinator of the Italian Resource Center of CT.

Our congratulations to our IACE teachers who have completed the course :

First ones on the pass-list Iana Giordaniello, Claudio Scarpelli, Gina Casano and Carmela Pesca, followed by Katia Moltisanti Tennyson, Oriana Moltisanti, Giuliana O'Connell, and Jennifer McKeeman.

For further information about ICON program log on www.italicon.it

2005 Summer program pictures

Welcome back home to our 2005 Summer Program winners!
Please click here to see some of the 2005 Summer Program pictures.

Italian Heritage and Culture Month (October)

New York's Italian Heritage and Culture Month Committee has for more than a quarter century organized special events, concerts, exhibits, lectures, to celebrate Italian culture in New York, the largest Italian city outside Italy.

Each year it focuses on specific theme representative of the history and culture of Italy and Italian Americans. This year’s theme is Giuseppe Mazzini, the Italian patriot who is considered one of the “patron saints” of the Italian Risorgimento

For further information about the upcoming events and programs please click on

http://www.italyculturemonth.org

IACE will offer 14 scholarships to Members (teachers of Italian)

Please find below the list of workshops divided by State.

5 scholarships for workshops organized by FLENJ (September 23)

• “Moving Students to the Novice-High Proficiency Level and Beyond

• “Teaching and Assessing World Languages through the Modes of Communication Institute”

• “Supporting Development of the Interpersonal Mode of Communication-What is it and how do we do it in the classroom?”

For more information log on http://www.flenj.org

Registration Deadline August 29

3 scholarships for workshops organized by NYSALFT (October 29-30)

• “Creating Student Immersion Programs in Italy”

• “Teaching AP Italian through Culture”

• “Building a foundation with FLES”

For more information log on http://www.nysaflt.org/conferences/

Registration Deadline: September 16

3 scholarships for workshops organized by COLT (October 17)

• “Resources for AP & Advanced Italian Courses”.

• “Strategie per l’ insegnamento dell’ Italiano”

For more information log on http://www.ctcolt.org

Registration Deadline September 30

3 scholarships to participate to the Actfl 39th Annual Meeting

• “2005-2015: Realizing Our Vision of Languages for All”

The convention will be held in Baltimore (November 17-20)

For more information log on http://www.actfl.org

Registration deadline October 3

The scholarships will cover the workshops registration fee and the hotel expenses. Please note that first preference will be given to early registrants. Please indicate an alternate choice in the event that your first choice is full.

Welcome back to the winners of our 2005 Summer program in Naples. Please click here to find more about the Award Ceremony held at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura on July 5th. (scansionare articolo)